Murex purpurea
as William Boericke recorded it in Homoeopathic Materia Medica, 1927
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Mind
Great sadness, anxiety, and dread.
General
Purple Fish The symptoms of the female sexual organs are most-prominent, and have been clinically verified. Especially adapted to nervous, lively, affectionate women. Patient weak and run down.
Modalities
Worse, least touch.
Stomach
Sinking, all-gone sensation in stomach (Sep). Hungry, must eat.
Urinary
Urine frequent at night; smells like Valerian constant urging (Kreos).
Female
Conscious of a womb. Pulsation in neck of womb. Desire easily excited. Feeling as if something was pressing on a sore spot in the pelvis: worse sitting. Pain from right side of womb to right or left breast. Nymphomania. Least contact of parts causes violent sexual excitement. Sore pain in uterus. Menses
irregular, profuse, frequent, large clots. Feeling of protrusion. Prolapse; enlargement of uterus, with pelvic tenesmus and sharp pains, extending toward breasts; aggravated lying down. Dysmenorrhœa and chronic endometritis, with displacement. Must keep legs tightly crossed. Leucorrhœa green or bloody, alternate with mental symptoms and aching in sacrum. Benign tumors in breasts. Pain in them during menstrual period.
Relationships
Compare: Plat; Lil; Sep (the latter lacks sexual erethism of Murex).
Dose
Third to thirtieth potency.
What the other books say about Murex purpurea
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Murex purpurea in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
- Murex purpurea in Boger — A compressed key — the generals and the characteristic modalities, with very little narrative.
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Create a free accountCite this page. William Boericke. Homoeopathic Materia Medica. 9th edition (preface dated San Francisco, June 1927). Murex purpurea — Mind. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boericke/murex-purpurea. Published 1927: public domain in the US (since 2023) and in India (author died 1929). Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.